Richard Lewontin interview
Richard Charles “Dick” Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator.In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution.He is also very well known for his landmark paper ” The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm” which he wrote with great Stephen Jay Gould and thus introduced the term “spandrel” to evolutionary theory. A spandrel is something that evolves as the necessary result of another trait, which in turn evolved under selection pressure.
Richard is also regarded as a great science writer and contributed immensely to many books including Modern genetic analysis.(you can read more about Richard Lewontin @ Sand walk by Larry Moran.In fact I also got the link for the interview of Richard on sandwalk .The complete telephonic interview can be read 
John Dennehy shares his view on Richard Lewontin and his work here
Famous Books by Richard Lewontin:
Introduction to Genetic Analysis
Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and Genomes
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Exploring Genomes: Web Based Bioinformatics Tutorials
UPDATE :
Listen what Richard want to say on “The Coevolution of Animals And Their Environments.” ,which is on TVO’s Big Ideas podcast this week.
The pod cast be downloaded from panda’s thumb
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